It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the relief and freedom an actor feels when portraying vulnerability and uncertainty in a character.
Sigourney Weaver reflects on her experience playing a character filled with fear and confusion, highlighting how this role allowed her to embrace vulnerability. By portraying a character that lacks control and knowledge, she found a sense of relief in the authenticity of the performance, bridging the gap between her own experiences and those of the character.
In practice
In a workshop on acting techniques, to illustrate the importance of embracing vulnerability, one might use this quote.
I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.
Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.
Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!
When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.
Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.
I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.
My words are like the stars that never change.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
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